ABSTRACT

Prof. Dr. Michiel Postema, FIOA, was born in Brederwiede, Netherlands, in 1973. He received an M.Sc. in Geophysics from Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 1996 and a Doctorate in the Physics of Fluids from the University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, in 2004. Following a postdoctoral position at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, between 2005 and 2007, he became Lecturer in Engineering at The University of Hull, England. He was granted an Emmy Noether Research Group at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in 2009 and a Visiting Professorship at L'Universite d'Orleans, France, in 2010. In the same year, he obtained the Chair in Experimental Acoustics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has written 60 scientic publications, including 40 rst-author papers and ve co-authored textbooks. His particular expertise lies in analysing medical microbubble behaviour under sonication and in high-speed photography. He also explores non-medical applications of bubbles and droplets in sound elds.